Community Sister/Charge Nurse

Job overview

Community Sister/Charge Nurse – Band 6

Are you an experience Community or District nurse? Are you a motivated, adaptable and keen to embrace a new challenge?  If the answer is yes, we want to hear from you today!

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our community nursing team for experienced community or district nurses to join the team and work across our unique Integrated Acute,  and Community Care service to help us make a difference to our patients . We have a flexible approach to working and offer a variety of flexible working opportunities that can be considered to fit around your family and lifestyle.

Main duties of the job

To provide effective caseload management and care to those patients over the age of 18 requiring nursing care in their own homes and other community settings working autonomously and independently. The post holder will provide holistic care, assessment of the new patient , clinical advice, treatment and support to those people who require additional support to remain in their own homes, particularly during the later stages of life, as well as providing care to those people who request urgent intervention to address clinical issues such as wound care and catheter management. The post holder will be required to work with the multidisciplinary team, gaining support and advice in the management of care. This post is subject to lone working so experience of working alone is desirable.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We provide a range of care and treatment to predominantly housebound patients who often have complex care needs or long term conditions that require treatment and support in wound care, catheter maintenance, palliative care, supporting people to die at home, insulin and diabetes care and a whole range of other health conditions.

The post holder will be responsible for effective caseload management and high quality care to those patients over the age of 18 requiring bespoke nursing care in their own homes and other community settings, often working autonomously and independently. You will provide holistic care, initial assessment of new patients, and will offer expert clinical advice, treatment and support to those people who require additional support to remain in their own homes, particularly during the later stages of life.

You will work collaboratively across the multidisciplinary team which includes Community Matrons, Virtual ward,Tissue Viability Nursing, Continence Specialist, Urgent community response team comprising, Paramedics, IV specialist team , therapists and our Phlebotomy Service to ensure a seamless patient care journey.

We are committed your training and professional development , offering unique training opportunities in end of life care and other relevant post graduate courses, working towards advanced clinical practice.

Interested? Watch and listen to our Community Team by clicking here : Community Recruitment Video FINAL - YouTube. You'll be joining a great team in a great place, where your commitment will be genuinely valued, your skills respected, and your ambition rewarded .

For more information or to arrange an  informal discussion to learn more about our opportunities and the service we provide then please contact Heather Atkins 07919424949 or Lucy Smith 07900168103 We look forward to hearing from you.

Great People. Great Place. Great Western Hospitals

Please see attached Job Description for further details.